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of the pleasure that knowledge yields than the
philosopher has of that which results from gain?” “There
is a vast difference,” he said; “for the one, the
philosopher, must needs taste of the other two kinds of pleasure from
childhood; but the lover of gain is not only under no necessity of tasting
or experiencing the sweetness of the pleasure of learning the true natures
of things,1 but he
cannot easily do so even if he desires and is eager for it.”
“The lover of wisdom, then,” said I, “far
surpasses the lover of gain in experience of both kinds of
pleasure.”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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